The Forum AID Award is Nordic

Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a cultural, historical and ethno-linguistic region in northern Europe that includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, characterized by their common ethno-cultural heritage and language. Modern Norway and Sweden proper are situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula,...

 architecture and design award handed out annually by the Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 magazine Forum AID. AID is an acronym for the three subject-matters of the magazine - Architecture, Interior design and Design - and it is also the three categories of the award. It is given to the designers of the "Best Building [interior design and design in the Nordic Countries" that year. The award was founded in 2004 and is presented at a ceremony in Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

The selection process is carried out in two stages. Each Nordic country is represented through its selection committee. The task of the committees is to select the best objects in their respective countries or by their countrymen abroad. The committees choose freely from those objects that had been carried out during the period October 1, to September 30, the year before. The winner is chosen by an international jury.

2009

Building: Mountain Dwellings

Mountain Dwellings

Mountain Dwellings is an award-winning building in the Ørestad district of Copenhagen, Denmark, consisting of apartments above a multi-storey car park. The building is designed by Danish architectural practice Bjarke Ingels Group...

, Ørestad

Ørestad

Ørestad is a developing city area in Copenhagen, Denmark, on the island of Amager. It is expected that 20,000 people will live in Ørestad, 20,000 will study, and 80,000 people will be employed in the area...

, Copenhagen
Architect: Bjarke Ingels Group

Bjarke Ingels

Bjarke Ingels is a Danish architect. He heads the architectural practice Bjarke Ingels Group which he founded in 2006. In 2009 he co-founded the design consultancy KiBiSi...

/Julien de Smedt

Julien De Smedt

Julien De Smedt is a Belgian-Danish architect based in Copenhagen, Denmark. In 2006 he founded the architectural practice Julien De Smedt Architects Julien De Smedt (born 3 December 1975 in Brussels) is a Belgian-Danish architect based in Copenhagen, Denmark. In 2006 he founded the architectural...

, Denmark.

2008

Building: Ørestad College

Ørestad College

Ørestad College is a public gymnasium in the Ørestad district of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is noted for its innovative architecture, favouring open studying environments instead of traditional class rooms, and for its media-oriented profile...

, Ørestad, Copenhagen
Architect: 3xN Architects

3XN

3XN is a Danish architectural practice with head office in Copenhagen.-History:The company was founded in Århus in 1986 as Nielsen, Nielsen & Nielsen by Kim Herforth Nielsen, Lars Frank Nielsen og Hans Peter Svendler Nielsen. The latter left the company, which is today led by a partner group of...

, Denmark

2007

Baron House, Ystad, Sweden
Architect: John Pawson Ltd

John Pawson

John Pawson is a British designer associated with the minimalist aesthetic.-Biography:Pawson studied at Eton College and the Architectural Association School of Architecture and is married to Catherine and has two children, Caius and Benedict.-Selected projects:London's Cannelle Cake Shop, several...

Client: Fabien Baron and Malin Ericson

2009

Design: Plopp by Oskar Zieta

Client: Hay. Denmark

2008

Design: Nobody Chair by Komplot Design

Komplot Design

Komplot Design is a design studio based in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was founded in 1987 by Danish architect Poul Christiansen and Russian-born designer Boris Berlin. The company works within the fields of industrial, graphic and furniture design.-History:...

, Denmark

Client: Hey, Denmark

2007

Design: North Tiles by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec

Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec

Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec are a design team formed by brothers from Brittany. In 2007the firm's "North Tiles" design for Kvadrat in Denmark won the D - Design Forum AID Award...

Client: Kvadrat

Kvadrat (company)

Kvadrat is a Danish Textile design company. Founded in 1968, it now holds a leading position in the European market of design textiles, supplying renowned architects, designers and furniture manufacturers throughout the world, for use in upholstery and curtains.-Showrooms:Kvadrat's major...

, Denmark

2009

The jury consisted of Chairman Marcus Fairs (the man behind Icon and Dezeen), Manuelle Gautrand, Sean Griffiths

Fashion Architecture Taste

Fashion Architecture Taste or FAT is an art and architecture collaborative that first established itself in the 1990s in London, England. Sean Griffiths, Charles Holland and Sam Jacob are the main members of the group. Emma Somerset Davis has been a previous member and a director of the group and...

 and Dirk Wynants

Dirk Wynants

Dirk Wynants is a Flemish furniture designer.He is the son of cabinet maker and studied interior and furniture design at the Sint-Lucas, Ghent institute for architecture. In order to learn the tricks of the trade he started as an agent for international design collections...

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2008

The jury consisted of chairman Detlef Rahe (internationally renowned architect and designer), Hans Ibelings (editor and publisher of the magazine A10 - new European architecture), Lorraine Farrelly
(acting head of the School of Architecture at the University of Portsmouth) and Johan Valcke (one of the founders of Design Flanders).

2007

Deyan Sudjic

Deyan Sudjic

Deyan Sudjic is director of the Design Museum, London, England.Before moving to his post at the Design Museum, he contributed to Schoolkids OZ, was the design and architecture critic for The Observer, the Dean of the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Kingston University and Co-Chair of the...

 (chairman), Ellen van Loon

Office for Metropolitan Architecture

OMA , is a Rotterdam based architecture firm of Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas.The firm was founded in 1975 by Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis with Madelon Vriesendorp and Zoe Zenghelis.-History:...

, Johanna Grawunder, Patricia Urquiola

Patricia Urquiola

Patricia Urquiola is a Spanish architect and designer.-Biography:Urquiola was born in Oviedo and now lives and works in Milan. She attended the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Madrid where she graduated in 1989 having done a thesis with Achille Castiglioni...

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2006

Detlef Rahe (chairperson), Hélène Binet, Peter Cook

Peter Cook (architect)

Professor Sir Peter Cook, founder of Archigram , former Director the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London and the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London, has been a pivotal figure within the global architectural world for over half a century. His ongoing contribution to...

, Kristin Feireiss, Satyendra Pakhale

Satyendra Pakhale

Satyendra Pakhale , Industrial designer. Popularly known as “Satyen Pakhale”.-Early life:Pakhalé studied Mechanical engineering at VNIT, Nagpur...